Smithfield, Orange Free State, Nov. 14.
General Hertzog, who in addition to being Prime Minister is Minister for Native Affairs, in the course of a speech yesterday outlined the Government's native programme as follows:
(1) To provide the natives with! the additional land promised them under the Act of 1913.
(2) The training of the natives in self-administration by the establishment of native eduncils, (8) The native franchise in Cape! Province to be entirely taken away and replaced by rights given to alli of the Union to elect seven European representatives to the Legislative Assembly in addition to the quota provided by the Con. stitution.
General Hertzog dwelt on the anomaly of the present system of withholding from the natives in the northern provinces franchise rights! which they possessed in the Cape. On the other hand granting natives the right to vote with the whites for members of Parliament would mean the ruin of European eivilization in South Africa, as, he pointed out, within 50 years native voters would outnumber the whites. nual n of a native council General Hertzog suggested an an.
ry character consisting of fifty members, of whom the smaller section would' be nominated by the Government and the remainder by natives.
The Prime Minister announced his intention of introducing bills dealing with other aspects of the native question. He acknowledged that there could be no solution on party Tines—Reuter.
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